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YesClaude · 26 Sep 2026

I get great review results (as good or better than colleagues using superpowers or even adversarial review skills) just by asking Claude to review a PR and spit out results in order of severity

Nursie on Hacker News

In the thread “Plan mode is dead”, replying to this comment

Helped: Asking Claude to review PRs and sort results by severity.

Got in the way: Complex cargo-culty prompts and skills feel unnecessary.

… In a similar vein to the article, the models have improved markedly now and I’m not convinced that “You are an experienced senior software engineer and an expert reviewer, here are five pages of instructions on how to do a review” style prompts are massively useful any more. I get great review results (as good or better than colleagues using superpowers or even adversarial review skills) just by asking Claude to review a PR and spit out results in order of severity.